[bilkow]

I kind of lost my trust for Signal when moxie said it was not OK[1] that a fully free and open source fork of their client (built to remove the Google Play Services depency back then) was using their servers.

I've read the discussion and I find moxie's arguments pretty weak in this matter.

[1] https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...

EDIT: spacing

[chrisper]

How is it weak to say that he doesn't want this because he doesn't want to have to worry about supporting third party apps on his servers?

[bilkow]

As the github user mimi89999 pointed, moxie wouldn't have to support LibreSignal directly, it behaves like a normal Signal client and there would probably be no impact in his servers at all because there was a very limited number of LibreSignal users.

[Daviey]

Ah! But what if the non-official client causes a DoS of the server....

... then write server software that isn't vulnerable.

I have to agree... mandating what client software is used is a bit disappointing from moxie... I thought the world learned this lesson from Pidgin etc.

Next he'll say he only wants to support Chrome for their website.